72 teams invited to fly novel drone designs, compete for $6.5M in prizes, more invites to follow DARPA invited the first tranche of teams to compete in the Lift Challenge, a national competition to ...
This might be the most interesting drone competition since the Outback Challenge. I wouldn’t use a single airframe, have a look at the bottom for what I would do. The US Defence Advanced Research ...
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) issued a challenge, the DARPA Lift Challenge, in October 2025 to develop novel drone designs that have greater payload-to-weight ratio. DARPA, which ...
Hundreds of applicants hope to compete in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Lift Challenge, which is designed to transform drone operations with a deceptively simple goal: make ...